Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the time to act is now.

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could